Picture this, your own wallpaper

Undated Handout Photo of Lunar Rocket from the Warner Textiles Archive, transformed into wallpaper by Space Innovation. See PA Feature INTERIORS Personalised. Picture credit should read: PA Photo/Handout. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature INTERIORS Personalised.

Published:08:34Thursday 15 August 2013

Choosing wallpaper was once a case of flicking through samples, or browsing row after row of patterned rolls in a homeware or DIY store.

With wallpaper enjoying a revival, the choice of classic or new designs is certainly vast but there’s another option that could make your walls special – choosing your own images to create unique papers.

It’s affordable and easy because one of the most notable wallpaper trends right now is for bespoke designs, with companies using cutting-edge technology to create high-quality wallpaper based on a picture or item you’ve fallen in love with, a compilation of beloved family photos or just one striking holiday snap for a mural.

What better use for those beautiful photos which in most cases never graduate to an album and instead spend an eternity stored on a computer or mobile?

“Having your photos made into wallpaper is an innovative and lovely way of using them,” says Victoria Wayland-Smith of Life On A Wall, which turns photo collections into collage-style wallpaper.

A choice of three design formats (classic, random and grid) are currently available, starting from £80 per square metre.

Creating the paper takes around two to three weeks. Customers simply submit their hi-res photos via the website, and will be sent a proof of the design to approve before it’s printed.

“People are taking more photos than they used to and my job is organising people’s photographs for them – primarily into photo-books.